Artemus Newton, Chief Warrant Officer Four United States Army (Retired) In the last two years since Artemus Newton retired from the U.S. Army after a thirty-two year career, he has had to deal with a Neo-Nazi billionaire, domestic Islamic terrorists, Iranian secret-service operatives, a German police chief turned hired-killer, professional assassins, C.I.A. turncoats, a U.S. Special Forces Chief Warrant Officer turned traitor, a United States Senator, mercenaries, a worldwide network bent on the destruction of the United States of America, geriatric Soviet sleeper agents, a 90-yearold former O.S.S. super-operator, and a lovely female C.I.A. officer and her boss.
But, now the fifty-two year-old retiree is in for the wildest ride of his life. Artemus Newton and nine others are trapped in a secluded castle in the Austrian Alps. One-by-one they are being killed and no one knows who will be next and who among them is the murderer.

Roger Blakely is an Army Chief Warrant Officer, currently assigned to the Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Roger spent six months at an Army airfield in Kuwait, 9 miles from the Iraq border during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the desert.
Roger has been in the Army for over thirty-two years with assignments in Germany, Kuwait, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Alabama and other interesting places and draws upon his extensive military background when writing his novels.